Walls/people

Famous quotes containing the words walls and/or people:

“The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

“While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)